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When Sgt. Joe Leko's officers collared a recent suspect, a methamphetamine addict, the cops were the ones who left her Farmington home emotional.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty says election results in three key races will be viewed as a "barometer" for President Barack Obama's popularity.

Developers of the controversial Big Stone II power plant in Milbank, S.D., said Monday they will not build the $1.6 billion coal-fired project, ending a four-year battle between utilities and environmentalists over a significant portion of Minnesota's energy future.

The race started about five weeks ago with three candidates and is ending with two a ' Democrat Bill Owens and surprise contender Doug Hoffman, a member of the state Conservative Party.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat Anderson began a 14-city introductory tour Monday by advocating for an expansion of the state sales tax opposite cuts in corporate and individual income taxes.

Holiday shoppers could be in a bah-humbug kind of mood this year, according to a survey of business leaders and managers in nine Midwest and Plains states released Monday.

Minnesota leads the nation in voting, volunteering and community involvement, according to a study released Monday.

A new Web site aims to make donations to more than 36,000 Minnesota charities easier by helping donors connect with groups they support, then processing their contributions.

A burst of star power Monday brought the vice president, a former presidential candidate, a country singer and the man who used to be "America's mayor" to a largely rural patch of upstate New York as a Democrat tried to fend off a late-campaign surge from a maverick conservative.

Striving to distance herself from "cookie-cutter conservatism," former State Auditor Pat Anderson launched her campaign Monday as a Republican candidate for governor, denouncing both the corporate income tax and special business subsidies.

House Republican leader John Boehner says the GOP wants moderates in the party and calls the special election for a New York congressional seat an unusual situation.

A yellow ribbon - ceramic to withstand the passage of time -- still hangs from the old oak tree in L. Bruce Laingen's front yard, a 30-year-old reminder of the Minnesota farm boy's ordeal as the highest-ranking diplomat among 52 U.S. Embassy workers held hostage in Iran for 444 days.

Minnesota officials are recognizing the role of manufacturers in the state's economy this week.

Minnesota's roads are becoming less deadly -- and the state's traffic fatality toll may be approaching a historic low.

Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson had the guts to do what Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and the entire Republican Party would not do.

There's a resource stretching across southwestern and south-central Minnesota that's fascinating and little known by most residents of the state, even the ones who live in the Minnesota River Valley.

Dooher appeared at the Capitol today to urge Minnesota voters to vote "Yes" on the 57 local school district levies appearing on ballots across the state.

Delegates at the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota named the Rev. Brian Prior as their next bishop on Saturday, passing over other candidates who included a Native American and two women, one of whom is a lesbian.

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